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Book Review

The Human Face Of what I am calling the human
face – not as an ivory tower
Philosophy pursuit by the few as some
would have it, but a guide to
Dennis C. Rasmussen. The Infidel and the Professor: David appreciation of the examined
Hume, Adam Smith and the Friendship that Shaped Modern life, presenting philosophy in
Thought. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2017. its human dimension.
Jonathan Rée. Witcraft: The Invention of Philosophy in Professor Rasmussen writes
English. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2019. about the relationship between
Costica Bradatan. Dying for Ideas: The Dangerous Lives of two Scottish philosophers of the
the Philosophers. London: Bloomsbury Academic, 2018. eighteenth century, which has
“The Unexamined Life is not worth living.” Socrates the quality of a novel about the
“There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio, touching friendship between
Than dreamt of in your philosophy.” Shakespeare
“Beauty is Truth, Truth Beauty, that is all ye know on Book Review on page 15
earth, and all ye need to know.” John Keats

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